The apache http server project's goal is to build a secure, efficient and extensible http server as standards-compliant open source software. the result has long been the number one web server on the internet.

this package provides development headers and the apxs2 binary for the apache 2 http server, useful to develop and link third party additions to the debian apache http server package.

it also provides dh_apache2 and dh sequence addons useful to install various debian apache2 extensions with debhelper. it supports
- apache 2 module configurations and shared objects
- site configuration files
- global configuration files